Marianna (Wojciechowska) Szymczak (1871 - 1908)

Born 19 Jan 1871 in Cegielnia, gmina Wilczyn, powiat koniński, woj. wielkopolskie, Polska

Ancestors

Daughter of Ignacy Wojciechowski and Anna (Mietkiewicz) Wojciechowska

Wife of Walenty Szymczak — married 18 Jan 1891 in Cegielnia, gmina Wilczyn, powiat koniński, woj. wielkopolskie, Polska

Descendants

Died 1908 at about age 36 in Nowa Gogolina, gmina Wilczyn, powiat koninski, woj. wielkopolskie, Polska

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Biography

Maria Wojciechowska, the daugher of Ignacy Wojciechowski and Anna Mietkiewicz, was born in 1871.

She married Walenty Szymczak in 1891 in Wilczyn, Poland. A few months later, they arrived in the US and settled in the Polish section of Cleveland, Ohio near St. Casimir's Church. She was known as Mary only in the United States. Many of her Mietkiewicz cousins lived nearby. Walenty and Maria had two sons and three daughters in Cleveland between 1891 and 1900.

Walenty and his family returned to the Poland after 1900. They lived next to Mateusz Wojciechowski, Maria's brother, in Gogolina Nowa. After their return, they had a son born in 1905 and child born in 1908 who died at birth. Three of Walenty and Maria's US born children returned permanently to the United States when they were adults.

Maria died in 1908 from smallpox and is buried at St. Andrzej Parish Cemetery, Kleczew.

Sources

• Wilczyn Roman Catholic Parish, "Baptism Record of Marianna WOJCIECHOWSKA - 9/1871".
• Wilczyn Roman Catholic Parish, "The Marriage Record for Walenty SZYMCZAK and Marianna WOJCIECHOWSKA - 4/1891".
• St. Andrew the Apostle Cemetery, Kleczew, "Burial Record for Maria Szymczak". [1]
• Paternal and Maternal relationships are both confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Jeanne (Szymczak) Jarzembak and CBC, her 3rd cousin . Their most-recent common ancestors are Ignacy Wojciechowski and Anna Mietkiewicz, the great great grandparents of both Jeanne (Szymczak) Jarzembak and CBC. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: Third Cousin, based on sharing 37 cM across 4 segments.